KATHMANDU, Aug 5: The Supreme Court (SC) has issued an interim order asking the Election Commission (EC) to not implement its decision to fine election candidates who as it said failed to present the election expenditures details to it.

Earlier, the EC had taken the decision to impose a fine of Rs 15,000 on candidates who as it reported failed to abide by the requirement to submit election expenditure within the specified timeframe.

In response to this decision, Binodmani Bhattarai, the Nepal Party candidate for the election of Member of the House of Representatives from Morang district challenged the EC's by filing a writ petition in the apex court.

On Friday, a bench led by Judge Bishwambhar Shrestha issued the order in this regard.

In the petition, he claimed that he had submitted the poll expenditure details to the Province Election Office, Koshi Province (the then Province 1), Morang.

The EC had also announced the fine of Rs 15,000 against him citing that he failed to submit the election details.

 
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